Contents
Introduction: Broad(cast) Humor
1 Situation
Comedy, Situation Tragedy: The Transitional World of All in the
Family
2 The
Revolution, Televised: Origins of the Family
3 Fuzzy
Reception: Meeting the Bunkers
4 Producing
Comedy: Making All in the Family
5 The
Character of Home: Chez Bunker
6 Not Bad for
a Bigot: The Making of Archie Bunker
7 A Really
Great Housewife: The Character of Edith Baines Bunker
8 Left In:
The Liberal Arts of Michael Stivic
9 “Little
Girl” to Mother: The Working-Class Feminism of Gloria Bunker
Stivic
10 Family Resemblance:
The Rise and Fall of the Lear Television Empire
Conclusion: Just Like Us
Acknowledgments
Index
JIM CULLEN is the author of numerous books, including The American
Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (2003) and
Sensing the Past: Hollywood Stars and Historical Visions (2012). A
resident of Hastings on Hudson, New York, he has taught at Harvard,
Brown, and Sarah Lawrence College, and is a longtime History
teacher at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York.
"Jim Cullen's beguiling scholarship offers a nimble treatment of
what was arguably American television's most influential scripted
series, made in the waning days of the now bygone mass audience."—
Robert Thompson, Founding Director, Bleier Center for Television
and Popular Culture, Syracuse University
"'All in the Family' pushed the envelope on race and gender. Has
America regressed since then?" by Jim Cullen— USA Today
"Those were the days: As ‘All in the Family’ turns 50, a look at
why it succeeded" by Jim Cullen— New York Daily News
"Little did I know about the world Archie Bunker and All in the
Family were born into until I read Jim Cullen’s informed and
perceptive Those Were the Days: Why All In The Family Still
Matters."— Norman Lear
"A very accessible and highly readable study that situates All
in the Family aptly in its historical moment. It illuminates why
the show became a landmark and what makes it so special to this
day."— Christina von Hodenberg, author of Television's Moment:
Sitcom Audiences and the Sixties Cultural Revolution
Mary Baker Eddy Library podcast: Jean Stapleton and the spiritual
dimensions of “All in the Family” episode— Seekers and Scholars
podcast
"Norman Lear deserves his Golden Globe award — does America deserve
him?" by Benjamin Lear— The Foreward
"From how each character evolved to the family's resemblance to
real-life changes and developing social awareness, Those Were
the Days provides a solid study that will serve as discussion
material for any media studies or American social history
classroom." — Donovan's Literary Services
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